x1800xt WOOT

killerkid · Jun 17, 2006

Hey guys i finnaly got my new x1800xt 256mb saphire card and my new psu.
So far stock this card is amazing, and sooo much better then what i was using before....which we wont mention lol. Ive gotten the core up to 670stable, 680 i got 1 artifract, mem i havent overclocked yet, but we will see how it goes, also i will make sure to do bench marks at stock and at overclocked.

WOOT.

PS: what should my fan speed be, i leave it at 100% constent because it doesnt bother me, is that bad?

redrumy3 · Jun 17, 2006

set it up so its like this in ati tool, thats what i did and was fine idle fan at 45% ,and when gaming at 100%

37c 36%

40c 41%

43c 41%

45c 45%

47c 45%

50c 50%

55c 86%

56c 100%

killerkid · Jun 17, 2006

great looks good =D

killerkid · Jun 17, 2006

what kinda 3dmark05 score should i be looking at stock and o/c?

killerkid · Jun 17, 2006

hmmm this is a little strange, whenever i do "find max mem overclock" in ati tool, whenever my mem raises up, my screen will flicker real fast. Anyone know why? Is that a sign of instability?

homer77 · Jun 17, 2006

dont use "scan for max core/mem" functionality from atitool on any of the x1x00 series cards. it doesnt work well with them.

killerkid · Jun 17, 2006

hey homer77 you should hop on aim and help me o/c this =D

The_NME · Jun 17, 2006

killerkid said:
hmmm this is a little strange, whenever i do "find max mem overclock" in ati tool, whenever my mem raises up, my screen will flicker real fast. Anyone know why? Is that a sign of instability?

It'll do that, but yeah, dont use ATITool for artifact checking. Open 3DMark and just keep raising it/benching it (can abort after ~30 secs) until you find the limit.

homer77 · Jun 17, 2006

the ways i use to find the max core/mem is to use 3dmark05.

when you pushed the core too high, it usually freezes during the benchmarks. which will require a windows restart. however, it wont damage your card, at least thats what ppl told me. so, when 3dmark05 freezes, then u know u'll have to lower the core frequency.

as for finding max memory, 3dmark05 will have artifacts poping up here and there especially during "nature" and "air ship" benches when ur mem freq is too high. so lower it until no "visable" artifacts are showing up.

also, you can exit out 3dmark05 after the "air ship" bench, before the cpu test, and still get a 3dmark score. the first 3 benches takes about 10min, which isnt too long.

JigPu · Jun 17, 2006

ATITool works pretty good for finding artifacts (at least, I haven't heard of problems lately with it), but it's "find max core/mem" feature dosen't work with some cards. 3DMark works as a good artifact test, but not as good as ATITool IMHO. Manually overclock the card and then run the artifact checker after each step, just as you would with 3DMark.

JigPu

killerkid · Jun 17, 2006

alrighty sounds good, that seems alot easier too considering if i run 3dmark after every 10mhz, thats 10mins x alot lol.

killerkid · Jun 17, 2006

also what about ati's overdrive option how safe is that?

killerkid · Jun 17, 2006

well ati tool doesnt like my core being over 675 or so, 680 i get artifracts, i dont get the normal yellow dots, but its beeping at me and saying some delta thing.

edit: also, how hot is to hot for my temp?

homer77 · Jun 17, 2006

i tried to keep my card temp under low 70s on air.

killerkid · Jun 18, 2006

hey just thought i'd update you guys on how this card was overclocking.
currently with using just atitool .25 beta 14 im at 702 on the core and 828 on the mem, the core is good to about 710-712 but at 715 i get locked up and have to reboot, and theres still a little more headroom left with the ram. Im really suprised that this card can do this much lol.

ps: homer, at 715 did you have to reboot looks like our cards are about the same heh.

homer77 · Jun 19, 2006

ya, my core is pretty stable around 711. anything over that i get lock up at 3dmark05.

my mem can go up to 825 w/o artifacting. beyond that, i start to get minor artifacting and more if i push mem higher.

redrumy3 · Jun 19, 2006

hmmm i didnt even try to overclock mine yet lol scared/dont know what im doing lol

killerkid · Jun 19, 2006

blah you guys need to get on aim heh.

Question, when overclocking do you guys ever have to like manually reboot??

by the by, i got my memory up to about 850 with atitool but around 860 or so it locked up and i had to reboot.

homer77 · Jun 19, 2006

killerkid said:
blah you guys need to get on aim heh.

Question, when overclocking do you guys ever have to like manually reboot??

by the by, i got my memory up to about 850 with atitool but around 860 or so it locked up and i had to reboot.

yes, i rebooted many times

850 is kind of pushing it on the memory btw.

killerkid · Jun 19, 2006

with my cpu, at 2.5ghz, 280x9 or 285x9 i forget, what kinda benchmark scores in 05 should i be looking for overclocked that is.

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